I am an HCI design researcher at ITI, LARSyS. Before joining the CMU Portugal program, I got my master degree in design at Tongji University and experienced multiple digital projects (Social media, social innovation and sustainability, etc.) with my interaction design skills in China. My current research is triggered by digital technologies, HCI, sustainability, and multi-disciplinary practices. I appreciated the opportunity and am glad to meet the fabulous network.
My research focuses on helping programmers and non-programmers on their daily tasks, by leveraging Program Synthesis and Program Repair techniques. Some of my other research interests include Formal Methods and Compilers.
John Mendonça is a Junior Researcher at the HLT (Human Language Technologies Laboratory) and a PhD Student in the Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST. He obtained his MSc degree in 2020 with the thesis “Automatic Detection of Profile Features”. In it, he applied speech processing techniques, more specifically in speaker recognition and paralinguistics, for the collection of crowdsourced and health-related datasets. More recently he joined a CMU Portugal Affiliate PhD Program under the MAIA project, a joint CMU/INESC-ID/IT/Unbabel collaboration for Intelligent AI Agents in chatbots. His PhD work is closely related to conversational quality estimation, having co-authored several peer-reviewed publications in this field.
I’m a Systems Researcher at INESC-ID with both a BSc and a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. During my MSc thesis we developed a tool that automatically parallelized software network functions, which piqued an interest in me and led me to do research in the networking field.
I am a doctoral student in the CMU-Portugal dual-degree PhD program in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) – Universidade de Lisboa.
I am being kindly advised by Prof. Paolo Romano at IST and Prof. David Garlan at CMU. I am currently working as a graduate research assistant at Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D) where I integrate the ABLE Group, and as a researcher at IST and in the Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems (DPSS) Group at INESC-ID Lisboa.
Gabriel is a Ph.D. student at Instituto Superior Técnico and at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He received a double M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from ISAE-Supaero and IST and worked as a research intern at Airbus. His research interest lies at the intersection of computer vision and NLP.
I am an HCI Researcher at INESC-ID with an MSc. Degree in Aerospace Engineering from IST. Highly motivated by technological challenges, I designed an approach for remote virtual collaboration during my master thesis. During my exchange program in India, I have enriched my adaptability to new environments and developed great intercultural sensitivity.
Through my education in computer engineering, interaction design, media studies and architecture, I learned to recognize the need for interdisciplinary approaches to designing interactions with (and within) the built environment. My professional experience as an interaction designer in India and Germany, and as a research assistant in the U.S. (Buffalo), Canada and Portugal enable me to connect academic research to professional practice.
I’m a 4th year PhD student in ECE in the CMU-Portugal program between CMU and IST (Lisbon, Portugal), where I’m advised by Justine Sherry at CMU and João Luís Sobrinho at IST. My research interests are in the applications of theoretical computer science to computer networking, namely to problems of traffic engineering and network design.
